CRE 312 Digital Photography Assignment 1#
Critical Analysis of Two Photographers
By Philip Langlois wolfjpl@gmail.com Date Due: 03/11/15 The history of photography can be traced back to the camera obscura which is a box with a pinhole through which light travels and reflects off a mirror showing the image. The invention of modern photography can trace its roots back to Niepce who took what would be the first photograph in 1827 using a pewter plate. People would improve upon Daguerre’s idea until 1888, when George Eastman and the Kodak Company created the brown box Kodak camera, which meant photography would be available to the masses without the need for a photographer at all and this gave rise to amateur photography (Tolmachev, 2010). …show more content…
In the 1970’s America was reluctantly unified after a divisive and bloody war that had a lasting impact. It lead to the opening to the west of America due to the Homestead Act of 1862 with thousands of telephone lines and poles being placed there during the war (Ycp.edu, 2015). Jackson headed out west to the frontier after breaking up with his fiancé and joining the Hayden expedition. The images that Jackson had taken with his camera caused audiences to be fascinated with Yellowstone. People in the East had believed that tales of geysers and waterfalls weren’t real but instead of handing them written evidence, Jackson showed them real proof that they existed and photographs were the undeniable proof. The work that Jackson did with the Hayden expedition went further than just taking photographs of the landscape of Yellowstone. It lead to Yellowstone being one of the first preserved national park in America’s history due to the public being intrigued and interested in the photographs that Jackson had been taking. In 1872 US Congress made Yellowstone the first national park to be preserved and protected (Nps.gov, …show more content…
His photographs were taken at a time of war and reconstruction in the United States, a time during which the nation had become one again and was unified in the creation of the first national park. Adam’s social and cultural background was different from Jackson’s as he was a staunch conservationist and preservationist trying to save the landscape of the American west and the national parks. Both photographers are kind of similar in a strange way yet they are
Critical Analysis of Two Photographers
By Philip Langlois wolfjpl@gmail.com Date Due: 03/11/15 The history of photography can be traced back to the camera obscura which is a box with a pinhole through which light travels and reflects off a mirror showing the image. The invention of modern photography can trace its roots back to Niepce who took what would be the first photograph in 1827 using a pewter plate. People would improve upon Daguerre’s idea until 1888, when George Eastman and the Kodak Company created the brown box Kodak camera, which meant photography would be available to the masses without the need for a photographer at all and this gave rise to amateur photography (Tolmachev, 2010). …show more content…
In the 1970’s America was reluctantly unified after a divisive and bloody war that had a lasting impact. It lead to the opening to the west of America due to the Homestead Act of 1862 with thousands of telephone lines and poles being placed there during the war (Ycp.edu, 2015). Jackson headed out west to the frontier after breaking up with his fiancé and joining the Hayden expedition. The images that Jackson had taken with his camera caused audiences to be fascinated with Yellowstone. People in the East had believed that tales of geysers and waterfalls weren’t real but instead of handing them written evidence, Jackson showed them real proof that they existed and photographs were the undeniable proof. The work that Jackson did with the Hayden expedition went further than just taking photographs of the landscape of Yellowstone. It lead to Yellowstone being one of the first preserved national park in America’s history due to the public being intrigued and interested in the photographs that Jackson had been taking. In 1872 US Congress made Yellowstone the first national park to be preserved and protected (Nps.gov, …show more content…
His photographs were taken at a time of war and reconstruction in the United States, a time during which the nation had become one again and was unified in the creation of the first national park. Adam’s social and cultural background was different from Jackson’s as he was a staunch conservationist and preservationist trying to save the landscape of the American west and the national parks. Both photographers are kind of similar in a strange way yet they are